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However, despite this I do want to thank the devs for working on this and for all the hard work they have been putting in trying to get all the bugs that have popped up taken care. I know its a lot. So much appreciated. Here's to hoping everything will be smoothed over soon and we can all get back to enjoying the new episode. =) Dude, don't thank them. They pushed back launch for a month, then still kitten up even entering the zone or making sure there is more than one instance so players can get in. Do you thank any other business, partner, or friend if they kitten up this badly?You know, software gets released that has discovered bugs after release all the time. Find me a single game that don't have problems. They don't exist. So stop acting like this is some kind of incompetence. Unless you can find me a single piece of software ever that has never had bugs.

yup. last chapter worked really well, wonder what they screwed up here?

so, as a side note, I turned down my graphics settings for the game within the game's graphics options all the way; well, I selected "best performance" out of the drop down box. And for the few minutes before I had to shut down to get ready for work, the game ran just fine. Oddly enough, since this problem started, it ran just fine for two days before the problem started back up again; so because of that I'm not sure if this is a temporary fix, if the game will shut my computer down after some play, or if this is a more permament fix. Since I have to get to work I wont be able to play it until tonight, so tonight sometime I'll give it a run and see how it does. But at least it didn't shut down immediately, so that gives me a little hope here.

This can help get us started. Download and run it.https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ so, the GPU Core Clock is running at 300.0 MHz, and the GPU Memory Clock is running at 150.0 MHz. anything else I need to check?

ok, so i dont even known if my graphics card CAME overclocked, is there any recommended software I can use to test this? Also, I can get as far as log in safely, so I'll try turning down my graphics in that window before logging in and see if that helps. But you see, thats the issue: this happened once before, if I recall correctly it was early this year with a living story, and a subsequent patch saw the issue go away. Now its happening again, but only after a bug patch a week or so AFTER the expac came out, so again, as mentioned above, the only thing that changed was GW2, so I cant see that my hardware is going bad. I even had geek squad run stress tests and try and crash it mulitple ways, and they were unable to replicate the issue any way whatsoever except running GW2. Regardless, havent run it in a bit.... now I'm patching, and it seems like quite a bit, so will try it raw with the patch and, if it crashes again, then I'll try it after downgrading the graphics, and if THAT fails will try and test the overclock state of my graphics card, if any, if someone can direct me to a reliable piece of software I can use for checking and, if necessary, downshifting the overclock....

I ran advanced uninstaller pro; it got everything. Then I reinstalled. Didn't help. I'm going to try the DDU thing suggested above next, but I'm running out of options. I'm very distraught over this. Been playing the game since beta, and now, suddenly, the game is unplayable. What's weird was there was a two day gap in all this that it DID, suddenly, work again. Then after two days went right back to doing this all over again.

some lengthy steps there, but I'll try it if this uninstall and reinstall doesnt work. had to download advanced uninstaller pro to uninstall the damned thing. about to retry gw2 now.

I thought I'd uninstall and reinstall the software. That did fix the issue once before. And Trying it to uninstall Generating an error message saying it couldn't download something. I was going to insert the image I snapped a picture of but for some reason it won't let me do so. I'm not sure why it has to download anything it to uninstall it, but whatever it is it's not letting me do it and therefore won't let me uninstall it. This is incredibly frustrating.

It may be the only application you run that has a chance of triggering the problem. If it was an issue with GW2's code, Windows would deal with the exception and kill the process. You'd get an error message, not a restart. fair enough

I started to say I never use that stuff, then I remembered watching video from woodenpotatoes talking about some piece of software that makes the level of graphics much sweeter.... and I cant recall what that was or if I installed it. I could either try to hunt down the video that he talks about it and then reinstall it, or reinstall the game itself maybe?

I've been doing electronics and computer repair for 35 years. Trust me - it's a hardware issue. And yet it only happens in one map, in one game. That seems oddly specific for it to be a hardware issue. Regardless, it's apparently stopped again after the latest patch, so.... You are, of course, free to believe whatever you want.wasnt intended to be rude, but really, its the ONLY thing causing the problem, and geek squad ran all kinds of stress tests that failed to cause it to crash.

argh! So, it worked for a couple days, then it started doing it again.So frustrating. I took it to geek squad for them to analyze but they couldnt find anything wrong; they apologized and said they cant fix it. And my support ticket i submitted a week ago has only had an automated reply and nothing else. That is equally frustrating.

I've been doing electronics and computer repair for 35 years. Trust me - it's a hardware issue. And yet it only happens in one map, in one game. That seems oddly specific for it to be a hardware issue. Regardless, it's apparently stopped again after the latest patch, so....

Are there any particular maps that you are shutting down in?

well well, I just did some more experiments. So far, every map I've been fine in.... except The Desolation. It isnt a hardware issue. At least, not by itself.